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Well I meant to make a nice coconut, Asian-style fish dish for dinner tonight. But instead, I opened up our Thermomix to fluoro green…! I was extra-keen with the coriander (a great herb to strip heavy metals from our body) but to my surprise the boys LOVED the green sauce and ate the meal! Hooray for their body’s reaping the benefits.

Here is the recipe:

Fluoro green fish

This dish made enough for three of us (husband away). I made this in our Thermomix, but please give it a go if you don’t have one. It’s a forgiving recipe that can be made roughly to these measurements.

4 cloves garlic

1 tsp peeled ginger

1 onion

1/2 bunch coriander roughly chopped (including stems and roots)

4 zucchinis

~20g sesame or coconut oil

1 tsp turmeric powder

~100g finely sliced cabbage

5 mushrooms

(Please add in as many or as little vegetables as you like. I got side tracked and forgot to put in other veges, like carrot or broc pieces)

~300g local, fresh white fish

~150g coconut cream

Himalayan pink rock salt, pepper to taste

Optional : fresh chilli, lime juice, fish sauce, rapadura sugar. The boys don’t fare well with most of these foods so we leave them out. But the dish is still tasty without them 🙂

Serve with rice, quinoa or cauliflower rice, carrot ‘noodles’ or just as is.

So once I got my game face on and served the boys this ridiculously green dish (the photo doesn’t do it justice!), Master 4 was shovelling it before I knew it…! Master 2 came around at the end (his usual trick, taking time to get used to the idea of what was in the bowl and after the obligatory ‘yucky’, with my response ‘say “I’m not sure about it”‘). It was so green, they didn’t even SEE the cabbage for the greenery! Woohoo! It’s a winner. I’ll be making it again before long to remind the boys of how delicious they found it the first time 🙂

So what do you think, can you fathom testing your kids on the greenery?

(Turmeric has so many superpowers including reducing inflammation, not to mention it gives the nuggets a great golden colour).

Fry in coconut oil at medium heat – to avoid processed vegetable oils or using olive oil which goes rancid at high heat (& not good for our health). Keep your olive oil for when you’re not heating it, such as the mayo…

Our Thermomix is a saving grace at making homemade mayonnaise and coleslaw. This way we avoid additives, sugar, gluten and other not-so-desirable ingredients in store-bought mayonnaise. Of course, if you don’t have a Thermomix and can’t fathom making mayonnaise, compare ingredient labels to find one with few ingredients.

As you can see, I’ve provided plenty of fish, some avocado for good fats that will also fill Master2 up and THE SAMPLER of coleslaw.
As he’s never seen it before (that he can remember), I reduced expectations to even eat ANY and put out enough just for experimentation.
He wasn’t keen when it stuck to his avocado, although that was my plan. However, we distracted him to focus on his fish. By the time he was stabbing his avocado (with help from Dad), he unwittingly ate some. No chance of a full scoop, but I’ll take some in the mouth a win!!!

We had ours with a pile of cherry tomatoes too. That’s a challenge for both boys on another night!

I’m sure others are up for some yummy, easy toddler meals. Go ahead and share your go-to one